ISO 639-3 · nepnep
Indo-European family · macrolanguage
Nepali
नेपाली
Nepali is a macrolanguage of the Indo-Aryan branch (Indo-European), spoken in Nepal, India, Bhutan and Myanmar. Wikidata counts 15.8 m first-language speakers (2019) and 8.7 m who speak it as a second language. Wikidata describes it as “official language of Nepal”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
nep- ISO 639-1
ne- Glottocode
nepa1254- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- Centre point
- 28.00, 85.00
- Wikipedia
- 140 language editions
15.8 mfirst-language speakers
8.7 msecond-language speakers
4countries
1scripts
3levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Nepali · नेपाली |
|---|---|
| Also called | Nepal, Nepalese, Nepali language, Gorkhali |
| L1 speakers | 15,800,000 (2019) |
| L2 speakers | 8,680,000 (2011) |
| All speakers | 24,131,000 (2011) |
| Written in | Devanagari |
| Official in | Nepal |
| Grammatical genders | 2 listed in Wikidata |
| Kind | macrolanguage |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Nepali
The branches above Nepali, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Nepal
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